Forwarded for Stephen Goranson:
Hi,
Here's an online article, perhaps one to note for g-megillot
and/or orion in the news. It's from December 2006; the
title at the newsletter link, Decoding the Dead Sea
Scrolls, is the same as that of a National Geographic show
next Sunday,
Agreed those things are possible. But it's equally possible that they (whoever
they were; I
agree with you about the whole Essene thing) just bought jars wherever they
could and put
scrolls they had already made into them. That's my gripe: the article goes
immediately from
jars from
It really isn't outside the realm of possibility is it that if scrolls are
being produced jars are also being produced at the same location to store
them in?
No Jim - for that would be utmost unproductive, not only in the narrower
party-political sense. Let's put it this way, 'the exile' in
